Beatrice – The North Platte Community College Knights defeated the Southeast Community College Storm 83-55 at the Truman Center in a Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference game on Friday night.

The Knights improve to 11-8 on the season and 2-0 in the NCCAC.

At the 10 minute mark in the first half the Knights held a 15-14 lead.  The Knights outscored the Storm 24-11 to take a 39-25 halftime lead.

In the second half the Knights started the half on a 11-2 rim to extend their lead to 50-27.

The Storm did cut the lead to 15 on back to back three-pointers.

Tim Wagner led the Knights with 20 points and seven assists.  Next in scoring was Tyree Peter with 16 points.  Peter had his third consecutive double-double and eighth on the season by grabbing 19 rebounds.  Leito Holloway was the third Knight to score in double figures with 10.  Michael Mitchell had double digits in rebounding with 12 and missed having a double-double by one point finishing with nine.

The Storm are 7-9 overall and 0-2 in the NCCAC.

The Storm were led in scoring by Taylor Britt with 13 points as the lone Southeast player to reach double digits.  Kwame Brown led the Storm with six rebounds.

The Knights out rebounded the Storm 59-31.